Castello des Rives
| Castello des Rives | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Château des Rives | |
| Creation time : | 13th Century | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Châtillon | |
| Geographical location | 45 ° 44 '32.5 " N , 7 ° 37' 13.4" E | |
| Height: | 448 m slm | |
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The Castello des Rives (in French : Château des Rives ) is the ruin of a hilltop castle on the moraine hill "Saint-Clair" in Châtillon in the Aosta Valley .
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The castle, of which only a collapsing wall and the castle chapel are preserved, was first mentioned in a fiefdom in 1242. According to legend, it should have belonged to the Templar Order , a hypothesis that cannot be refuted because of the possible existence of an Order of Hospitallers in the Aosta Valley. According to legend, there was a much larger settlement next to the Châtillon settlement on what is now the Saint Clair hill.
According to the historian Jean-Baptiste de Tillier , the settlement of Saint-Clair was destroyed in a flood of the Dora Baltea , which led the survivors to live in Châtillon from now on. The castle was gradually abandoned and fell into ruin over time; it was probably also used as a quarry. In fact, there are no records of the castle after 1242.
Chapel of Saint Clair
The castle chapel remained standing next to the remains of the wall; it is a little higher up and must have been dedicated to Notre-Dame du Châtelard . The typical Romanesque chapel fell into disrepair over the centuries until it was completely destroyed in 1663 and then again under the supervision of Alessandro Boffa , a citizen of Châtillon who also had the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce chapel built at the end of the old, Romanesque bridge was built. The chapel is called Saint-Clair .
The chapel fell into ruin again and was rebuilt again in 1878, by order of Joseph-Auguste Duc ; it took its present form in neo-Gothic style , the outside completely white inside with a vault that the fresco is provided a blue night sky with yellow stars. Above the entrance portal there is also a small, wooden organ inside, which - like the altar - is also in neo-Gothic style.
Every year on Easter Monday, following a presumably medieval tradition, the residents of Châtillon march in procession from the parish church dedicated to Saint Peter to the chapel.
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- Jean Baptiste de Tillier: Historique de la vallée d'Aoste . L. Mensio. Pp. 86-89. (1737) 1887. Retrieved August 17, 2020.